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Open AccessThrough hole-cutting conic posture optimization for a redundant 3D laser cutting machine
Productively reducing the time required to cut numerous through holes in automotive workpieces is crucial for enhancing parts manufacturing in the 3D laser cutting process. However, the conventional cutting st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Virtual Sensors in Industrial Manipulators for Service Algorithms Like Payload Checking
Industrial manipulators are usually equipped with a set of basic sensors (encoders and current sensors) that could not be sufficient to implement more advanced service and control algorithms, like the Payload ...
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Supervision and monitoring of logistic spaces by a cooperative robot team: methodologies, problems, and solutions
Mobile robots can be employed in the logistic field to efficiently perform common tasks, such as building and updating maps of indoor and outdoor logistic spaces, locating specific goods on the map, tracing th...
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Active SLAM and Exploration with Particle Filters Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Autonomous exploration under uncertain robot location requires the robot to use active strategies to trade-off between the contrasting tasks of exploring the unknown scenario and satisfying given constraints o...
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Article
Multirobot Localization in Highly Symmetrical Environments
The paper addresses and solves the problem of multirobot collaborative localization in highly symmetrical 2D environments, such as the ones encountered in logistic applications. Because of the environment symm...
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Chapter
Multi-robot Map Updating in Dynamic Environments
Multi-robot systems play an important role in many robotic applications. A prerequisite for a team of robots is the capability of building and maintaining updated maps of the environment. The simultaneous esti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Autonomous Exploration Using Kinect and Laser Range Finder
Autonomous exploration has received a large attention in robotic community. The problem of building and maintaining a 2D map (such as an occupancy grid map or a topological map) has reached a recognized level ...
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Open AccessSimultaneous Localization and Map** Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters in Multi Robot Systems
In this paper we investigate the problem of Simultaneous Localization and Map** (SLAM) for a multi robot system. Relaxing some assumptions that characterize related work we propose an application of Rao-Blackwe...
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Chapter
Friction Identification and Model-Based Digital Control of a Direct-Drive Manipulator
Several tasks of the most recent robotics applications require high control performances, which cannot be achieved by the classical joint independent control schemes widely used in the industrial field. The ne...
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Chapter
Architectures for Rapid Prototy** of Model-Based Robot Controllers
Rapid Prototy** (RP) in control design can be defined as a computerassisted process aimed at recursively validating dynamic models of complex plants and mechatronic systems and/or designing and testing digit...
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Chapter
Impact Modelling and Control of Robotic Links
Impact modelling and control can be fundamental in robotics, for the execution of tasks that require the interaction of the robot with an external body, ensuring that a stable contact is achieved without rebou...
